2010 World Cup Futures Thread

[Daft]

5Dimes as of this morning:

Spain +435
Brazil +495
England +655
Argentina +755
Netherlands +1125
Germany +1450
Italy +1530
France +1950
Portugal +3050
Ivory Coast +4250
Serbia +6300
Chile +7700
USA +8750
Mexico +10500
Paraguay +11500
Ghana +12200
Cameroon +14500
Uruguay +16500
Nigeria +17500
Denmark +18500
Australia +19500
South Africa +19500
Greece +30500
South Korea +32500
Switzerland +33000
Slovakia +54500
Slovenia +63000
Japan +75500
Algeria +80500
Honduras +100000
North Korea +100000
New Zealand +100000

Roguey I'm thinking of putting $50 on Spain +435 and Italy +1530

What are thoughts on these 2 plays and what else do you like in the futures. My Italy pick is a slight homer pick but I think their style fits the WC nicely (and I think you mentioned you agreed also).

[illmatick]

Juror better get his ass to capping, my world cup profit margin is all on him

who else here kills it in soccer?

[MrMonkey]

Dafty, I will look over the brackets more closely before giving out selections. Don't think Italy has what it takes this time around but maybe Lippi can get some new blood to perform? Can't believe he cut Fabio Grosso from the final squad? Guy was a clutch performer in 2006. England I think has a real good shot at it, especially with an Italian running the show.

[reno cool]

North Korea
South Africa
Cameroon
Argentina
Brazil

yes,yes

[Daft]

North Korea
South Africa
Cameroon
Argentina
Brazil

yes,yes

You played all these Reno?

[Bread]

I'm gonna make some big bets when I'm down there on individual games. Not sure which of you yahoos I'm following, if any.

[Acid Joe]

I got a small future on England. 5dimes +670. Also have Brazil to reach the final four +130.

[tullamore]

I bet Serbia @ +6300.

[reno cool]

You played all these Reno?

not yet

[durito]

Juror better get his ass to capping, my world cup profit margin is all on him

who else here kills it in soccer?

Yea rj, give us some props to bet.

[durito]

Anyone betting north korea, nz, or honduras. take the +250,000 at pinny.

[Daft]

*****ATTN ROGUE JUROR*********

[RogueJuror]

Yes I will post, let me prepare something.

[Daft]

Calm down Daft

[Bread]

Juror we are gonna get along with Daft II very well I think. Kid sounds like a mad man.

[RogueJuror]

daffy II is gonna bust it out the antwoord style

[tullamore]

Uraguay +365 to win Group A.

Argentina -205 to win Group B.

Serbia -115 to advance out of Group D.

[RogueJuror]

Daffy I'm calling Argentina to win it all. I wasn't ignoring this thread, its just this Cup I'm finding it different, I'm going with the gut pick to all the exposure . I've called the last two World Cup winners and the last Euro winner, only losing the Euro 2004 pick when Greece surprised everybody.

Its going to be my only bet to win it all. I had it down to this and Spain. Spain would have been my "homer pick" (crazy story I got going). Spain is the most in-form team coming in to the tournament. There really isn't any country looking as good, and coming from winning the Euro, its their tournament to lose. They really look good for it but.

Now Argentina, there's a huge uncertainty to this team. Local folks are of course supportive but they don't know what to expect. What Maradona has done is to go for in-form players, be it experienced or not, or with European past or not. Angel Di Maria is a possible break out star, possibly going to Real Madrid next season. If, if they get a couple of players clicking together and the team gel as a whole they got this. At the feet of Veron (as we have seen in Estudiantes), I think there's a huge possibility this could happen.

Now Brazil completes the three obvious choices. What Dunga has done is to go for European experienced players only. He absolutely ignored some great in-form players, like Paulo Henrique Ganso, considered the next Kaka and the future Brazilian #10, without a doubt a future world football phenom (remember the name). But not just him, there's atleast a half a dozen players that could have easily been in the squad. There's many unhappy people in Brazil. Yes you have lots of stable European based players, but that didn't shined this season, just stable. Completely opposite of Argentina. And people are not complaining in Argentina, but they are in Brazil.

Now we go to the eternal contender Italy. Italy is not good, they are not well- experience and talent wise. In Lippi we don't trust, and the high of the winning generation is long passed. Having spent a good chunk of last season there I got say that people are not enthusiastic of their possibility of winning, reading the daily press the tifosi are wild 'cause of the tournament but they are realistic of what they can achieve. As a fan of the Azzurri I would love to be surprised though and see them go through as far as possible, and they are always considered eternal contenders.

Similar to Italy, Germany is always in the running and you never discard them. And similar to Italy the Germans are in a bit of disarray and without identity. Their main problem is that they are not a purebred team, its looking more like a Bundesliga selection more than a German national team. They have lost alot of what makes "Germany" Germany. Its very hard to picture them successful. But eternal contenders they are.

Two underdogs that I like very, very much are England and Chile. And a huge reason for it are their master strategist at the helm Fabio Capello and Marcelo Bielsa. Argentine Bielsa has Chile so smooth that I consider them the second most in-form team after Spain coming in. I easily see this two able to go deep and even reach the final. And you know what they say about World Cups in the Southern Hemisphere (South American team wins it).

The only bet I'm making in the Top Goal Scorer is Luis Fabiano of Brazil.

Now seeing Carlitos Teves (a very special player to me) champion and Diego win it in the ultimate rastaman redemption would be just awesome. It would be football poetry. Have no doubt though, Brazil is my country, that's the team I'm cheering, that's the country I adopted a long time ago. This is a generation of players I've been following for so long, sometimes very close, you'd be surprise how close. The São Paulo of Luis Fabiano, Kaka and Julio Baptista. The Santos of Elano and Robinho. The Flamengo of Julio Cesar and Felipe Melo. The Cruzeiro of Maicon and Luisão. Most people are stuck being patriotic to the country they are born in but I chose Brazil.